"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. " Clarence Day, b. 18 Nov. 1874... he'd end up writing a memoir about his childhood in NYC, which would end up being made into Life With Father, a fabulously technicolored movie w/ wonderful, brilliant Wm. Powell [hair dyed red!] & Irene Dunne [oh my gosh, their duet together is a pure delight] .... young Elizabeth Taylor, too...

So guess what? Apart from the happy fact that I had a laughter-filled dinner last night with book-friends, incl. swell YA novelist Vicki Grove & swell illustrator Henry Cole, according to the wikibots it was on this very day in the year 1307 - isn't it remarkable that folks kept track? and that it'd end up being the same day, 602 years later, on which Johnny Mercer, one of the best composers ever, was born, and anyway, in was on 18 Nov 1307 that Wm Tell shot an apple off his son's head, neither of them ever to know that there'd be an opera about their harrowing experience . Wouldn't they have gotten a large bang out of Rossini's overture to the Lone Ranger? Oh baybee...